The National Rifle Association is considered on of the most powerful lobbies in Washington. But how did they get so influential? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Any good political fight needs a bad guy, and for liberals upset about congressional resistance to gun control legislation, the National Rifle Association is the bad guy of choice. And it’s not a bad choice by any means. The NRA really does carry enormous clout on Capitol Hill.
But liberals — like Igor Volsky from ThinkProgress in this video — often like to express this clout in terms of the NRA’s campaign contributions.
This is wrong. Money matters in politics, and the NRA does have money. But lots of lobbying groups have more money than the NRA and almost none of their clout. The NRA’s true sources of power are twofold — people and focus.”